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Russia souvenir banknote for the 80th anniversary of Victory
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a victorious soldier holding a laurel-wreathed helmet bearing an eternal flame, set against a clear sky and blossoming apple tree; flanking elements include a gramophone record and musical staff referencing the song "Glory, Our Soviet Country!", along with a fragment of an authentic front-line letter. Portraits of legendary Soviet aviators Marina Raskova, Vera Lomako, and Polina Osipenko appear at right, while the lower left carries images of an Eu-series steam locomotive and a wartime hospital train from the Victory Museum collection. Flying cranes run along the upper border, and a QR code in the upper right corner links to supplementary educational materials. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a sculptural image of a grieving woman — a collective symbol of mothers, wives, and daughters who lost loved ones — standing over a fallen soldier against a storm-cloud underprint, with pages from the Book of Remembrance filling the upper register. The Victory Museum building on Poklonnaya Hill appears in the upper left corner, while a stylised formation of flying cranes occupies the lower field. A fragment of the "Faces of Victory" historical project and a detail of the museum's "Crystal Tears" installation — representing the 2,600,000 crystal chains suspended in the Hall of Remembrance and Sorrow — complete the composition. |
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Goznak has produced commemorative and souvenir sheet issues regularly since the Soviet period, but this 2025 Victory anniversary release sits in an awkward commercial category — not legal tender, not a standard commemorative banknote, but a souvenir item with no face value assigned for circulation. Bank of Russia souvenir notes of this type are sold directly through the bank's numismatic distribution network and post offices rather than entering the cash system at all.
The 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War is among the most politically weighted commemorative dates in the current Russian calendar. Goznak's Moscow facility has handled all such prestige print runs domestically since the Soviet collapse, maintaining intaglio capability specifically for issues of this kind.